robert_tweed

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by robert_tweed 5y ago
It was just my last name. So in a way surprising it wasn't classified as premium to begin with. But the fact such a concept exists at all, and the goalposts can move at any time, is the troubling part.
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by robert_tweed 5y ago
I registered my own name under one of the new gTLDs because it was $10 for a year and I thought, "why not?". I didn't do anything with it, partly because I remained sceptical of the new gTLDs so didn't want to switch any
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by robert_tweed 6y ago
He also referenced the story from 2002 about the man who burned his "delicate bits" with a hot laptop. He suggests it may be apocryphal. I remember that story [1]. The main reason I remember it is because of the reported warning t
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by robert_tweed 6y ago
> The official way to pronounce “MySQL” is “My Ess Que Ell” (not “my sequel”), but we do not mind if you pronounce it as “my sequel” or in some other localized way. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en
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by robert_tweed 6y ago
It's worth noting that the statutory warranty period in the UK is 5-6 years (depending on which country), not 2 years as is the minimum required by the EU. So it might be interesting to see how this plays out here, although I'm no
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by robert_tweed 6y ago
In case anyone thinks this is a dupe, it's not. This post is inspired by the first article. It gives a much more detailed analysis of the code and what data is sent where.
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
OK, these kinds of regex tools get posted quite often. I get it, regex is very confusing at first. And some of these use-cases result in rather complex expressions nobody should be forced to write from scratch (you are still remembering to
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
I'd like to know, from anyone with Plan 9 experience, does its approach to "everything is a file" solve these problems?
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
This is true, but you could probably make quite a lot of progress with "Cooking in Ten Minutes" by Édouard de Pomiane. Some reviews of this book point to the recipes being dull compared to some newer books, which while true, misse
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
Slightly easier to read: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1205086129504104460.html TLDR: Igor Sysoev started Nginx while employed by Rambler, who did not then claim copyright, but now they have. The police raid is a
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
I only skimmed it, but it doesn't seem that they looked directly at whether the sharks actually fear Orcas per se. It is already known that white sharks flee whenever one of their own is killed by anything, which they can smell from so
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
Personally I find that one easier to read and tend to write e.g.: WHERE foo AND bar Or with long, complex ones: WHERE foo AND bar
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
I don't bother with this but instead try to keep column names alphabetical. I try to do the same thing in other languages with property names, etc. This gives greater stability in version control, as it removes the temptation to change
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
I wonder if this article being on the front page of HN for so long had a direct impact? To put the scale of the outrage into context, this is one of the most upvoted articles since the MacOS High Sierra "log in as root by typing no pas
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
I'm looking to move away from Notes because it has a serious bug (possibly only when using Exchange, I'm not sure) where notes longer than about 3 pages get truncated without warning. I found this out the hard way when my "bi
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
An important difference is that Go not only has a concise set of constructs, it also tends to deliberately avoid abstraction. So any given piece of code is very explicit and self-contained. Apart from function calls, you can tell exactly wh
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
Indeed, it is a fundamentally flawed principle. Code needs to be considered as a graph. All indirections within the code create an edge. Linear blocks of atomic instructions make up a node. The first fallacy is only considering the size of
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
This link as posted tries to do a tracking redirect via a domain that is blocked on my network, so I had to use Outline to read it: https://outline.com/hPWSHk
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
I'm stealing this with the caveat that it could put pressure on a developer to work out requirements, which isn't always what you want. If used correctly, to remove "gold plating" from an MVP, this seems like a great tec
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
You raise an interesting point. If you are doing anything non-trivial, you should definitely be using a main loop and catching errors inside that loop. You really don't want to rely on the default behaviour of orphaned timers, becaus
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
While this is 100% correct, if the main function has returned then the process was going to end anyway (assuming there isn't additional code after the call to main). If there's a main loop, then the catch needs to be inside that l
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
Interesting, thanks.
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
Do you have any references for synapses changing size with use? A quick google indicates the opposite, if anything: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2015/06/08/br... Brain expansion (not co
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
That's kinda the problem. It's a secure enclave (potentially a good thing) but a far too complex one with too many responsibilities and capabilities. I am of the opinion that the secure enclave for fingerprint reading should be so
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
While this is true, I am also put off by the increased attack surface of a proprietary embedded OS (watchOS) running in the touchbar, outside the control of the main OS and by extension, not under my control either. Given how much everyone
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by robert_tweed 7y ago
If I'm understanding you correctly (and I haven't RTFA yet, sorry) this is a bit like Operational Transform, allowing you to run some or all steps in parallel and achieve eventual-consistency. As opposed to TCO, which is simply re
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by robert_tweed 8y ago
This is a format that I've thought for some time would work exceptionally well in technical interviews: rather than ask a bunch of questions, have a small set of problems that start from a working piece of code in need of work. This re
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by robert_tweed 8y ago
The main problem you will hit eventually is subtle bugs, like not handling CSV escaping correctly when, for example, the field value happens to contain a comma. Quick and dirty and probably fine for a quick PoC if that's what you'
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by robert_tweed 8y ago
There isn't really an incentive to opt out. The constant referencing of ads is a bit misleading. It's just that ads happen to very often be the slowest loading content on the page, which causes lots of annoying reflows. Really it&
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by robert_tweed 8y ago
I've been meaning to spend some time learn Processing[1] for ages, and would be interested to know how this compares. [1] https://processing.org/

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